Removing original software from a slave drive

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New 80G hard drive installed, partititoned into two sections-Windows Xp
on Fat32 C: and the second partition is NTFS for data storage. The old C
drive (Fat32)is now a slave. Original Maxwell (date of birth 2003)second
drive F removed due to bad blocks appearing in ever increasing numbers.
I lucked out and received one of the bad runs that Maxtor produced in
2003. In fact, it was out of the 1 yr.warranty by the time I acquired it
in the fall of 2004<lol>
That's the scene
Reinstalled fresh WindowsXp, Files and settings transferred well at the
repair shop.
Now I'm reinstalling programs into the new hard drive.
The old software is still on the original drive (Its a pre 2003 Maxwell
<lol>now in a slave, extra storage position )
I'm only looking at the contents of the old drive to remind myself what
was installed previously.
QUESTION:
Can I just delete the contents of that old drive when I have everything
back in place?
Is there anything else I could/should do with that slave drive if
deleting the software is the correct procedure ?
Rose
 
Once data copied, and you've checked!, delete or format the old drive.
PS why are you using fat?
 
In DL <[email protected]> typed:
| Once data copied, and you've checked!, delete or format the old drive.
| PS why are you using fat?
|
| |||| QUESTION:
|| Can I just delete the contents of that old drive when I have
|| everything back in place?
|| Is there anything else I could/should do with that slave drive if
|| deleting the software is the correct procedure ?
|| Rose
RE: PS why are you using fat?

It was a trade off<grin> The repair person is averse to ntfs. I am aware
of the downsides so having my files in the NTFS partition and giving my
factual reasons for that preference and giving him his perference for
the OS.
This old drive was the main boot and OS with software. So do I use the
disk management section of Xp or do I go into Dos to do the clean out of
that drive?
Rose
 
Disk Management
You can convert fat to ntfs on the fly, see win help
PS you dont *have* to format, but it would ensure its clean
 
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